Alright, today I’m going to show you how to take off the chain on a Ducati The S2R 800.
Right now what I’ve done is I’ve taken the back tire off.
I will post the link here for a video on how to change that out…
If you need to get that far.
This is what that guard looks like.
So just take that off.
Those are what the bolts look like.
And then I’ve taken off the little shield that goes right here as well.
It’s just got those little Allen bolts in there.
And there are two of those bolts on this thing.
Now I’m going to take this off right here; it’s got the little bolt right there.
And then it will give me access to the chain.
The chain, you can see, is connected with a kingpin like this.
You can see the orientation of the kingpin is that it slips onto the bolt like this and
the little clip holds onto these little nubs.
So I’m going to take that out and then the chain will become loose once I take this pin
out.
Alright, so I rotated back this kingpin all the way to the end and I’ve broken off the
little metal bit on there.
And now this piece comes out.
It was pretty rusted on there so I had to break a little bit of it.
And now this pin will come out and that leaves the chain to come completely off the bike.
Anyway, I got one of these guys right here.
This is to adjust the chain.
It’s about 20 bucks on Amazon.
These things are pretty hard to find so I’ll make sure to put a link for that in the video
description below.
And then the chain right here, it turns out that for each link…each link is considered
two little links right here…so there are 54 of these little guys…these little red
things.
And so the whole chain is 104 links long.
So that’s what fits on the Ducati S2R the 800.
So to loosen this up right now, because the old chain…you can see when I line them up
directly right here…at the very end, the old chain is slightly longer than the new
one.
So it’s been stretched out.
So what I’m going to need to do is loosen up these pinch bolts, back this in a little
bit so that it’s shortening the distance between the two sprockets so that the new
chain will fit on perfectly when I put the new king link in…the main link…the master
link.
Alright, so I’m going to show you how to loosen and tighten the back sprocket.
These are 14 millimeter bolts right here and you just have to loosen them up all the way.
And then you take your little Ducati chain tool and you can pop it in here.
And pushing it down actually loosens up the chain cuz it moves the sprocket towards the
front of the bike.
And switching your tool around and pushing upwards tightens the chain because it moves
the sprocket farther away from the front of the bike like that.
So down is loose, up is tight.
And then once you have it in the right spot, you just tighten these two little bolts back
down and you’re good to go.
So I got one of these clipped kingpins, or master links, because they’re a whole lot
easier to put on than the other ones.
So basically I put the two rubber washers in there.
I’m just going to slide it through the back two slots.
And then put the other two washers on the other side, and slip that master link in there.
In order to get this link on, you have to press this part of the master link farther
on.
There’s a little tool that I’m going to link in the video description below that works
better for this.
I’m just going to use my chain punch tool and kind of press it right there in the center.
And now that it’s pressed on enough to show those grooves right there, I can take my little
link, pop it in, and then I’m going to use…grabbing it like that, I can just pinch it on into
place.
And you want to make sure that the round part of that clip is always going in the direction
of your motorcycle; that way it never accidentally comes off.
So for the chain tightness, the Ducati chain, it needs to be at 30 millimeters which is
just over an inch.
It’s like 1.18.
So right now it’s a little bit below 2 when I pull down, and it’s almost to 1 when I
pull up.
So I’m going to loosen up just a tiny bit so I have the 1.1 inches of flex in there.
So that’s about what it looks like when you have the right tension.
The biggest thing is is that you don’t want, like when you’re on the bike your weight
comes down and tightens up the chain.
So the biggest thing is you don’t want the chain to bind up when you hit that final…like
when you hit a bump or something like that and kind of bind your suspension into place.
So just make sure that it’s not super tight when you sit down, otherwise you might need
to loosen up a tiny bit more.
The reason I changed my chain in the first place was that when I would go around corners
and stuff my chain would start clicking.
Or when I would accelerate, the chain would click because the links had stretched out
enough that it wouldn’t quite fit on the sprocket anymore.
So now with the new chain, it works like a dream.
Alright, got those two pinch bolts down there tightened up.
Got all the guards back into place, and the chain is good to go.
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